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Despite the government's efforts to thaw tensions with Beijing, MPs were warned this week of spying threats from China.
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The only person in Congress to vote against the bill was a right-wing congressman from Louisiana who is an ardent supporter of President Trump and has espoused conspiracy theories.
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The House has voted to tell the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, after President Trump caved to pressure from fellow Republicans. Our congressional correspondent Annie Karni describes how Trump's inability to head off the vote is a sign that his movement is fraying.
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We speak with one of the Indigenous leaders at the U.N. climate summit in Belém for the climate negotiations, in greater numbers than ever before, taking center stage at COP30. They are calling "to end the persecution of our land defenders," says Diana Chávez, member of the Pastaza Kichwa Nation, with Pakkiru, an Indigenous organization based in Ecuador's Amazon. "We're fighting to keep our territories."
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The House overcame a months-long impasse, and the Senate quickly dispatched with the issue.
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After Mohammed bin Salman's last White House visit, U.S.-Saudi ties were strained by the slaying of Jamal Khashoggi. They've rebounded in Trump's second term.
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After a near-unanimous House vote, the Senate agreed to quickly clear the bill for President Trump's signature.
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Rep. Ralph Norman (R-South Carolina), who introduced the resolution, said it was "beyond comprehension" that Plaskett would communicate with Epstein during a hearing.
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Seven years ago, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman couldn't visit Washington. When he arrived at the White House on Tuesday, he got F-35s, the world's fastest chips and the central role in the remaking of the Middle East.
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The newly redrawn map would have given Republicans a leg up in as many as five House districts for the 2026 midterm elections. Texas must use its 2021 map.
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Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Nancy Mace resisted pressure from the president and made the vote to release the Epstein files possible.
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Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to release the investigation files. See how your representative voted.
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The move by a three-judge panel dealt a blow to efforts by Texas Republicans and President Trump to flip Democratic seats in the state.
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The de facto Saudi ruler was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.
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As Democracy Now! broadcasts from the COP30 U.N. climate summit, we speak with Kumi Naidoo, the longtime South African human rights and environmental justice activist who is president of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. He discusses U.S. absence from climate talks, Gaza, and wealthy countries refusing to take accountability for the climate crisis. "We're not asking the rich nations for a charity here. We are asking them to pay their climate debt."
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MI5 has issued a new "espionage alert" to members of the House of Commons and Lords.
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The judge sided with families of students who had argued that the displays infringed on their religious freedom.
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The measure rebuked the retiring Democratic representative Jesús García of Illinois for maneuvering to ensure his top aide would be the only one running to succeed him.
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Leader George Finch says the move will allow festive lights to be put up safely.
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Leader Nigel Farage says his party would renegotiate the Brexit deal struck by the Tory government.
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With negotiations in their second week here at the COP30 climate conference in Belém, Brazil, we get an update on the United Nations talks from Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth. He says COP30 is taking place against a backdrop of rising far-right authoritarianism, climate denial, and genocide in Gaza, which are all testing the "rules-based system" underpinning the U.N. climate framework. "How do you celebrate 10 years of Paris, 30 years of COP, to show that, actually, multilateralism matters and implementation matters?" says Rehman of the central challenge of the talks.
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Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of negotiations. The gathering comes 33 years after the Rio Earth Summit, which created the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Countries are trying to find a way forward on addressing the climate crisis, even as global temperatures continue to rise and as the Trump administration boycotts the conference. COP30 is also the first since 2021 with a significant civil society presence, after three successive U.N. summits held in repressive countries that outlawed public protest.
"The beauty of the forest COP, the beauty of the people's COP in Brazil, is that civil society is very active, both inside and outside," says Leila Salazar-López, executive director of Amazon Watch.
We also speak with Viviana Santiago, executive director of Oxfam Brazil, who advises the Brazilian government on sustainable development. She stresses the importance of centering Indigenous peoples and the health of the Amazon in these talks. "People that are most affected for the climate crisis are the people that did nothing to [cause] this crisis," says Santiago.
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Jelani Cobb, the acclaimed journalist and dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has just published a new collection of essays, "Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here." The book collects essays beginning in 2012 with the killing of Travyon Martin in Florida. It traces the rise of Donald Trump and the right's growing embrace of white nationalism as well as the historic racial justice protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. "What we're seeing is a kind reactionary push to try to return the nation to the status quo ante, to undo the kind of demographic change, literally at gunpoint, as we are pushing people of color out of the country by force," says Cobb.
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The Syrian president, who visits the White House today, just oversaw his first election.
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"The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement." Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser, is working to stop Trump's anti-democratic agenda.
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